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For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of the affliction we experienced in Asia; for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself.
6
If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.
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Our hope for you is unshaken; for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.
8
For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of the affliction we experienced in Asia; for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself.
9
Why, we felt that we had received the sentence of death; but that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead;
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he delivered us from so deadly a peril, and he will deliver us; on him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.
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